Wright v. Goord

—Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of respondent which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

Following a tier III disciplinary hearing, petitioner, a prison inmate, was found guilty of making threats, refusing a direct order and committing an unhygienic act by throwing a cup of water at another inmate after being ordered not to do so. The unhygienic act charge was dismissed upon petitioner’s administrative appeal and petitioner thereafter…